Immigration reform is a touchy topic for Republicans. They’re primaried if they support it, but lose minority votes if they don’t. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) previously supported bipartisan immigration reform. However, pressure from the radical right has caused him to flip-flop on the issue. Ryan recently joined fellow House Republicans […]

“Politically damaging” for Republicans doesn’t even begin to cover it if the House fails to pass a border bill before their five-week vacation. While thousands upon thousands of refugee children (not, despite some conservative theories, rapists, gang members or criminals, but children) flood into the United States from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, House Republicans […]

A Republican and potential 2016 presidential candidate supports immigration? He says give illegal immigrants work visas and invite them to stay in the U.S.? Yes, that’s right. For Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill did not give out enough work visas to the construction and agriculture business. But with 60,000 children streaming […]